Subject: Re: bug#28471: closed (Re: bug#22629: [PATCH 0/4] 'guix pull' produces a self-contained Guix)

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 23:46:23 +0200

Hello!

>   • Meta-data about what was pulled is kept in manifest entries, using
>     the ‘properties’ discussed in <https://bugs.gnu.org/31442>.
>     Currently the UI doesn’t use it but you can see that info in
>     ~/.config/guix/current/manifest.

Commit e2f8be0664609223369f01290b69b44196783ab3 adds ‘guix pull -l’,
which produces output like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Generation 1	Jun 10 2018 00:18:18
  guix 65956ad
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: origin/master
    commit: 65956ad3526ba09e1f7a40722c96c6ef7c0936fe

Generation 2	Jun 11 2018 11:02:49
  guix e0cc7f6
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: origin/master
    commit: e0cc7f669bec22c37481dd03a7941c7d11a64f1d

Generation 3	Jun 13 2018 23:31:07	(current)
  guix 844cc1c
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: origin/master
    commit: 844cc1c8f394f03b404c5bb3aee086922373490c
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

In the future it could also display information such as the number of
packages available, the number of added/upgraded packages, and so on.

Ludo’.